The Sun. — London, England, 1838-09-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A certain old lady, who has long figured among the best possible public instructors, as the dullest of the dull, con trived on Saturday last to be exceedingly amusinc , by a dis play of ignorance and stupidity not to be paralleled in mo dern journalism. The following forms part of a leading article of the Morning Herald:— " Whilst, however, Lord Durham has been ' conciliating' the Americans, and toasting the health of their President, how have the men of the United States been acknowledging his Lordship's civilities ? Let the following most expressive state- went supply the answer ! The narrative, be it observed, is taken from one of the United States journals 1 [FROM THE NEW YORK INQUIRER, AUG. B.] " The steam-boat, Bunker-hill arrived in our port yesterday, having on board some 200 discharg ed Canadian volunteers, who had been taken on board at Malden, to be landed at Chippewa. They were dressed as all militia usually are, as suited their fancy, and their colours were as various as their dresses. They were accompanied by their officers, and were very civilly behaved. Notwithstand ing this, however, a number of blackguards soon gathered round the vessel while she was discharging her freight, and commenced abusing the men, and ultimately pelted them wig: missiles. Captain Homans, of the Government steam-boat Alilwauhie, having, however, been applied to, he stationed sen tinels to protect the strangers, and the rabble dispersed. We trust a strong example will be made of some of them for their disgraceful conduct. The same game. we hear, was played at Toledo and Cleveland.' " This outrage, let it be noted, was committed on the loyal subjects of the Queen of England—on men admitted to be very civilly behaved'—not at an American outpost, near the scene of the late disturbances, but in the city of New York. The outrage in question is, in truth, but an embodiment of those sentiments towards England which animate the breast of Mr. Van Buren and of the vast majority of his fellow countrymen ! And it is to the authors of such a disgraceful violation of all international courtesy that Lord Durham de lights to truckle ! If Lord Durham shall remain in Canada, Canada will, in all probabiiity, be lost to the English Empire. Let Lord Durham be recalled ; and let his place be supplied by thirty sail of the line, and by thirty thousand additional troops. Mr. Van Buren would, then, adopt Lord Durham's policy, and truckle in his turn !" Nothing in Foote is richer than this exhibition of Grand. mamma. Mi den, at which the steam-boat Bunker-hill takes on boar-. 1 200 discharged Canadian volunteers, is situated at th 6 bead of Lake Erie, on the Canada side ; and Chippewa, at which they were to be landed, is also on the Canadian side, near the isle which was the theatre of General Van Ranselaer's operations. The distance be tween Malden and Chippewa is only about 300 miles. Grandmamma, however, makes the steam-boat with the 200 volunteers descend the Niagara falls, a mere nothing of course, and touch at New York, about 800 miles off, to reach a distance of only 300 miles. The port at which the steam-boat touched, whence the letter published in the New York Enquirer was received, was probably Buf falo ; but Grandmamma, seeing the extract in a New York paper, with most magnificent disdain of geography, at once brings the steam-boat with the Upper Canada volunteers to New York, and makes, not an American outport, but the city of New York itself, the scene of an outrage which the old lady opines should lead to the instant recal of Lord Durham. Let Lord Durham be recalled, and let his place be supplied by 30,000 additional troops ! Captain Bobadil could have imagined nothing more magnificent. How Grandmamma could have contrived to pass through this Canadian insur rection, and find herself now in such a blessed state of igno rance as to suppose the city of New York on the way be tween Malden and Chippewa, is most extriordmary, making all due allowance for the state of her intellect. The story told of a statesman of his having pored over a map of the Netherlands till his eyes were near blind with out finding the Scheldt, which he could not recognise in the French L'Escaut, is far outdone by the New York feat. Into what a strain of indignant eloquence th e o ld l a d y bursts forth ; and how Lord Durham must quake when Grandniamma's order of recal first meets his eye!—Morn ing Chronicle. We have already stated, that no sooner has O'Connell escaped from his hypocritical penances at Mount Melleray, having g ot absolution and paid his bill, than back he re turns to his extra-conventual species of Trappisin ; and, by way of indemnifying himself for his seven days' nominal abstinence, rushes afresh into his old excesses, which again will doubtless be settled for at his next pantomimic shrift. Our readers would observe in Saturday's paper, that fol lowing up the precursorship of his iceregal avant courtier, who travels a post or two ahead, flinging open the gates, emptying the gaols, and discouraging the interference of a constitutional magistracy, the anointed knave has com menced, at Cork, a regular circuit of political dinners, or (as termed by himself) a series of "influential meetings," by the help of whose ignorant and drunken clamours he vows his determination — never to rest till all he wants is gained. Taking care that his demands shall be such as afford little chance of his vocation and tribute being speedily put an end to, lie details in extenso what alone will satisfy him ; glances at the encouraging support which be gets from a profligate Government ; sets forth the difficulties and obstacles which still lie in his path ; and, finally, points out the means whereby, he affects to think, they will ulti mately be overcome. Ireland, it seems, must have " a per fect equalization with England," that is, as he explicitly declares, the same privileges to 40s. freeholders, the same municipal reform, the same elective franchises, the newly adjusted rent-charge for tithes totally abolished, and, above all, the same number of Representatives in Parliament !" On this latter point, unless equality can be otherwise gained, " O'Connell announces his resolution to kick some .50 English Members out of the House of Commons without mercy. Twenty-five boroughs are to be disfranchised at a single stroke ; and, alas for the Harwich consti tuency, the work of destruction is to begin with them. The rent-charge for tithes is also sentenced to death. Improving upon Lord Howick's memorable declaration, that the Tithe Bill was satisfactory only in as far as the Irish Papists might be cajoled for a time to put up with it peaceably, his Lordship's full-grown pupil is already straining every nerve to excite and envenom that hostility to the measure for which he can safely plead the suggestion and apology of even a Minister of the Crown. I Fortified by L or d Ilowiek's unguarded sanction, which, after all, probably arose from the Noble Lord's habitual distress f or id eas rat h er th an f rom an y deliberate convic tion of its propriety, O'Connell doubtless feels that as long as that Minister is undisniissed there are no extremes on . the tith e quest i on to w hi c h h e may not b eta k e himself with perfect impunity. Accordingly, he now tells les myrmidons th at a ll necess i ty for stea l t h y conspiracy is at an end. The dark and dawn need no longer be re sorted to, as a covert for their insurgencies. The Peep o'-day Boys, as he assures them, may forthwith conic out "in the full noontide of the sun." " A rent-charge," he says, " is only another name for tithes exacted from the tenant ;" and un l ess a total abolition be conceded, he will arouse the hostile energies of the entire country— " the Union shall be prostrate, and Ireland free." Of course such miscLievous and bombastic foolery as this is not to be reasoned on, except as between the head of the Cabinet and his incautiou s su b a l tern ; but since the char tered agitator expresses such a longing that the two coun tries, should be " the same" in 30 many defined particu lars, we only wonder that he did not add " the same in taxes, the same in manufactures, the same in religion, the same in shipping, and, above all, the same in unmitigated contempt for trap and Trappists, of what order soever." In reality, few things could give us more pleasure than to see such an equalization effected, provided it were rea ll y " perfect ;" but this the blustering mountebank has no notion of. With respect to the Whig Cabinet's willingness to encourage and assist him, he at once declares that he gives them all manner of credit for sincerity, but frankly confesses that" they can do nothing." Contrary to Lord Palmerston's electio neer i ng b oast when promising a ball to the liberal dam sels of Tiverton, Mr. O'Connell admits that the Whigs have dwindled down in public estimation, till at last they have scarcely a bare majority ; while poor Callaghan, one of the twin Membe rs for C or k , l aments that the Irish tail, instead of having leisure, as in f ormer S ess i ons, to ta k e t h e i r mur phies and whisky in comfort, had latterly " enough to do to keep the Ministry in power." To say the truth, the pro gress and strength o f t h e Conservative party were ' descanted on at this Cork cabal with rather more candour than satis faction; With the sound and constitution a l views of that party the immense majority of this country was justly iden tified ; and hence the cab allers were entertained with a tor rent of vituperation against "England," su c h as the prince of slanderers himself has rarely, if ever, given vent to before. Having declared that th e c hi ef obstacles he has to contend with arise from th e C onservative cha racter of the Legislature, and from the " hatred" which all classes of Englishmen bear to Ireland,. a li as himself (of whom he says " they aredailygrowing worse") he wi n d s up all with a fitting appeal on behalf of his Precursor Association," imposes upon each member the d u t y o f beat ing up for recruits, talks of is chosen delegates sh a ll not in organizing " a great combination of mind," and announces that h only hold public meetings England, but go " from member to member" in the House of Commons, offering them th e short alternative of " equalization or repeal."hions of a seatForo nuir selves, we have never felt particularly am t to it encounter Irish Parliament, n or h ave we yet to learn that impudence is a pretty formidable affair ; but, certainly, in the prospect o f th ese t h rea t ene d importations and impor tunities, we should like vastly to see the mortal delegates that would venture to twitch our sleeve on any such mission as theirs. We should b e s t rong l y tem pt e d to show them that their doctrine of " mem b er t o mem b er " is susceptible of an illustration more hon oure d i n t h e b reec h than in the observance."—Times. It is an important truth that charity should begin at home. It is no less true, however, that it ought not to end there. These two propositions are joined together by THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1838. strong, was justified by the occasion. On Saturday morn ing we announced, in common with some of our Contem poraries, upon the authority of a correspondent, the news of the arrival of an order to respite the exe cution at Chester. Previously to being made ac quainted with that fact, we wrote some observations on the subject, which appeared in our leading article of the same morning, in which we treated the matter as doubtful, nor did we think it right to alter or omit those observations upon the authority of a casual cor respondent, who, for aught we then knew, might have been himself misinformed. Besides, as our remarks were chiefly directed against the injustice and barbarity of the bastardy clauses of the New Poor-law, the force of their application remains while those clauses continue in the Statute-book, notwithstanding the lives of Dinah Jones and Ann Byrom have at length been spared. In the Chester Chronicle we find the confirmation of the intelligence which we gave " from a Correspondent" on Saturday morning. We give it in the words of that paper : The application to the Government was signed by about three hundred respectable citizens ; and the females of the city, to the number of seven hundred, addressed the Queen in affec tionate and loyal language. The leading inhabitants of the city have all exerted themselves, and brought what influence they could to bear upon the fate of both prisoners, in order to ameliorate the sentence. The City Sheriff, the City Clergy, and the Ministers of all denominations, have given their best aid. A feverish anxiety was felt as to the effect. Each post was anxiously looked for. We congratulate the citizens of Chester on the interposi tion of the Royal prerogative—that brightest jewel in the re galia of the Sovereign, even mercy, on behalf of these crimi nals, and not only on their behalf, but also on behalf of the morals, the feelings, and the wishes of the citizens of Chester. It is a boon to the city to relieve us from the outrage of public executions. The city thanks are due to the Queen for the act of grace. Let our prayers accompany those thanks, that our city may never again be outraged by another public execution." In attacking the bastardy clauses of the New Poor-law, which are so well contrived to create the dreadful tempta tion to the commission of the crime for which the two unhappy women at Chester were condemned to the scaffold, we kindled a more than ordinary degree of rage in the gentle bosom of that Somerset House Amazon—Cupid's maid of all work. In the harmless exasperation cf her toothless fury she calls us such names as the fish market supplies to a Doll of Wapping like herself. That she should cull her names and metaphors from Billingsgate is natural enough, seeing what a reputation she formerly obtained for her dealings in cod fish —and when she next catches a fine fish of that sort at Lowestoffe or elsewhere, with a child in its belly, we hope she will give us timely notice, that we may render due honour to her exclusive possession of a rarity in verum natura surpassing any thing that has been brought under the notice of the British Association of Science and Non sense in its sectional lectures or dissectional dinner par ties, while cultivating arts mechanical and gastronomical, by which the disciples of Watt and Ude, of Cross and Kitchener, may go on hand in hand " smiling to immor tality." We observe that this British Association had a lecture upon a fish with four eyes one day—and Scottish white-bait on another, both of which rarities, we hope, like the good children who learn their letters in ginger bread type, they did not forget to eat ; but what is either a fish with four eves or Scottish white-bait to such an edible curiosity as the Globe's little " Jonas" and his finny dry—or rather wet, nurse—the cod fish which would give " science" and subsistence to a whole section of philoso phers for a week? We can assure Cupid's maid of all work that, n otwithstanding the foolish flippancy of tongue and petulance of temper which she evinces whenever we bespeak the public sympathy for the miserable victims of the Wbig bastile law, we are so far from feeling any ill will towards her in return, that if to-morrow all her other spe culations railed, we should have no objection to recom mend her to the post of matron to a union workhouse, where the practice she has had in the management of the Downing street scrubbing-brush and slop-pail, might make her eminently useful. Now for the angry lady's facts. Wishing to make it appear that the respite arrived in Ches ter as early as Thursday morning last, she gives the fol lowing narrative, although neither on Thursday or Friday teeming had that Journal, which is in constant communi cation with the underlings of Government, published any knowledge of the circumstances which it now puts forth : "The first petitions from Cheshire on the subject of these convictions was received at the Home-office on Friday week, and transmitted, by the direction of Lord John Russell, to the judge who tried the prisoners. The judge's report reached town on Monday, and was immediately transmitted to Lord John Russell at the Isle of Wight. The Noble Lord decided on recommending the cases for the mercy of the crown and next day the respite was forwarded to Chester, where it ar rived early on Thursday morning." Will the reader believe that in the very same pub!ica ti,m of the Globe—that of Saturday—there is also given another equally " authentic" account of the matter, in which it is stated that the respite left town at such a time as would bring it to Chester two hours before the time ap pointed for the execution, adding—" On Thursday evening both women were visited by th chaplain of the prison, and appeared resigned to their fite, at which time they did not entertain any hope that the royal mercy would be ex tended to them." So much for the consistent information which Cupid's journal gives the public, whose discovery of the nine Graces made such a sensation in the literary world the other day.—Morning Herald. Although we are net at all displeased, but quite the con trary, to see the Ministerial policy with regard to Ireland taking a practical direction, we must beg leave to protest against the great assumption of merit on that account, which we find in the Ministerial journals. They are pleased to say that very great gratitude is due to the present Go vernment for the intention manifested by it to do practical good to Ireland, and they insinuate that the policy of their political opponents has been heretofore the very opposite, and that not only in effect, but in design, was the Tory Government of Ireland, oppressive of the en ergies of the people. We wish that the Whigs were but half as earnest, and half as industrious, in attend ing to the public business of the country, as they are in praising themselves, and imputing all manner of evil (falsely) to their political opponents. Who does not know that the grand obstacle to the improve ment of Ireland has been its political agitations, and that general disobedience of the law, which made men of capital afraid to entrust it in such a country ? Who (lies not know that the Whigs have ever been the friends of agitation, and the confederates and comforters of agi tators ? Even at this hour the real hindrance to the adven turing of capital in the south of Ireland is the fear that no man would be suffered to draw its profits in security, or to enjoy them in peace, unless lie joined the party of the priests, and thus virtually, if not ostensibly, submitted him self to their tyranny. Even to this hour, it is a fact that when a man of sober and industrious habits—especially if he be a Protestant—realizes an independence, he generally leaves Ireland for some part of the United Kingdom, where he will be secure and undisturbed, whatever place of wor ship he may frequent, or whatever political candidate he may vote for. This he cannot be in the Romanist parts of Ire lend, owing to the malignant industry of the prime supporters of the Whig Government. And yet the priests and the Whigs would persuade Englishmen that they are peculiarly and ex clusively the friends of the " material" well-being of the Irish people. We pledge our personal knowledge to the accu racy of the following anecdote, which we give as illustrative of the kind of benefit which Popery and Whiggery, and the political ferment in which both delight, confer upon the material well-being of Ireland. In the year 1809 a man in humble life, who served in a shop, collected a few pounds, and determined to try his fortune in the United States of America. He was shrewd, civil, and attentive, and having set up a shop for anrg:oo. l me one-and-twenty - a t t the other went yyside years rs aproperty rope r At t y Atlantic, i c le , fortyi the rlen friendsthea nd, y i R e t a ae r nn l dd B i cn 3 og 2 , he ntpo as np b e r o o nn u ds g to h hf t e eveningiiss c api t o a f l Of this notion he w as f u ll, w hil e h e conti nue d at the realisedt i b l h a i s o c uk days a a w y n i s d t h a d mo withinil oml youth. hotel in Dublin, before going into Westmeath, where he had been m irt o l born and bred. But at the end of t n h e r pso ee fses be we fora he had returned again to the same hotel, and very soon ryato y ears,m an af terwards sailed back with his forty thous an d dollars tthe wUhnoitehdadShteaetens,sedpeacrlaatreindgftrhomat such t uc w h as sce ial to endure the condition of strife and hazard whi c h n was (in was a the only part of the country that he cared for) produ ce d by Roman fe l t that that a tdroveCatholic. i a ta n t y lon in . ter Y fe e r t en th ce is w m i a th n his religion him and his capital a wa y fro m h i s n ative land ; but, having politicall t been accustomed to freedom and securit y , he Ro manist Ireland, its agitation, and its tyranny would not do for him. Therefore —having the means to live elsewhere —he went away. If this man had belonged originally to the north of Ireland, where neither Popery nor Whiggery have any considerable footing, his capital would never have gone back to the United States. He would have found security and comfort around him in the home of his fathers, and one more instance would have been added to the thou sands which exist in the north of Ireland (as in Scot land) of the country being enriched by industry exer cised in a foreign land. The real curse of Ireland—the real foe to all material improvement—is the continual ex asperation of the people, kept up for the sake of promoting the interest, of their political leaders, while it keeps them selves destitute—and despicable because destitute. This is the work of those worthy confederates, the Whigs and the Romanist Priests. But we are told that the Irish have been kept down by the oppressive laws against the indus try of Ireland, enacted after the feeble and inglorious resist ance which the Irish Papists made to the arms of William 111. This is the mere cant of recreant Whiggery, and con fident liberalism, which always rests itself upon some assump tion, to the utter forgetfulness or absolute negation of his torical fact. How often must these theorists be told that Ireland was not only more tranquil, but more prosperous— that her people were better fed, and in all respects (save the enjoyment of religious freedom) better circum stanced between the periods of William the Third and since. Let it notbe supposed, however, that we account the fetters upon religious freedom, which, within that pe riod, were imposed upon the Romanist Irish, as a light matter. No ; we would have respected the men that had contended for this freedom, and if at the sword's point, so much the more. But Irish Popery has never contended in a manly fashion for anything. Irish Popery hath ever sought sotae base and scoundrel method of proceeding. Conspiracy, clamour, lying representations—promises art fully constructed with a view to their evasion—oaths made only to be broken—compacts violated without shame, and protestations of fidelity, trampled upon without remorse— these have been the political weapons of the Irish Roma nists. By these have the leaders corrupted the morals of the people. This—this is the evil which meets us in so many shapes. This is the fountain from which so many slaughters have been derived This is the hindrance to mercantile, as to every other kind of prosperity. This is what makes even the best laws comparatively unavailing— quid leges sine moribus Vans proficiunt ? If the laws instituted by Great Britain (as it is said) for the purpose of crushing Ireland were the real cause of Ireland's poverty and degradation, how has it not happened to the north of Ireland even as to the south ? There has not been one mercantile law for one part of the country and another for another part. No—the pretence is a false one—the reason stated for Ireland's backwardness is alto gether a mistake. It is the political and social and most immoral system of Irish Romanism that has done the mis chief. Even in the south they who were not Romanists, nor persecuted by the Romanist system, have contrived to prosper. There are no wealthier men in Ireland than the Quakers, who are scattered about in the fine corn country watered by the Barrow and the Suir. They attended to their business while the madness of political agitation, pro moted by Whiggery and Popery, raged around them. ' They could have given to the Romanists lessons which, if attended to, would have banished destitution from the land ; but the people were taught by another description of persons—by men than whom the world has never seen more heartlessly selfish wretches. They filled the land with violence, and they obtained political power for themselves. This was their object, and this they pursued, and do pursue, well knowing that their course is that which promotes the destitution and the social wretch edness of the people. If the Irish Liberals were what they ought to be, they would be utterly ashamed of the pretence that their inferior situation is owing to England, and that their progress in material well-being must be owing to the helping hand of England. Why do they not help them selves? They can brawl and bellow loud enough about some speculative political advantage for their leaders—why do they not work with equal energy to make themselves respectable ? Did the Scotch—did the men of the north of Ireland—ever whine for English help, or howl about English oppression ? No ; they worked, honestly and openly, as men ought. They entered into no conspiracies —they broke no oaths—but they " quitted themselves like men," and they have their reward in the respect of the empire and of the world. Let the Irish Romanists behave themselves as well, and earn their prosperity by a similar manliness of exertion.—Morning Post. KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. DUEL PREVENTED. —On Friday evening George Hicks, Esq , a gentleman holding a high official situation at the Ad miralty, residing at No. 1, Camden Hill-terrace, Kensington, waited on H. G. Codd, Esq., the Magistrate of Worship street Police-office, who resides at Kensington, and applied, for warrants against his son, Mr. George Henry Tempest Hicks, and a young gentleman named Edward John Heward, residing at Vauxhall, whom he stated he anticipated contem plated fighting a duel on the following morning. Mr. Hicks, who was accompanied by two gentlemen, stated that a short time since a disagreement occurred between his son and Mr. Howard in France. On Thursday night, during his (Mr. Hicks's) absence from home, Mr. Heward called at his residence and assaulted his son, and not being satisfied with that, had challenged him to fight a duel with him at fire o'clock on Saturday morning. Mr. CODD—Where is the duel to be fought ? Mr. Hicks —On Camden Hill, Kensington. Mr. Conn—l have no fear of the duel being fought on so public a spot as Camden Hill. However, as you have sworn that ou fear a breach of the public peace, I will grant the warrants. Mr. Hicks—What will be the consequence of such a pro ceeding ? Mr. Coen—Why your son, when taken into cus tody will be locked up. Mr. Hicks—l should not like bim to be locked up in a cell all night. The Magistrate and Mr. Hicks and his friends having con ferred together, Mr. Hicks agreed to the warrants issuing, on condition that his son should not be taken into custody until shortly berore the hour appointed for the duel. Shortly afterwards, when Mr. Codd had quitted the bench, Mr. Hicks returned to the police station, and begged the war r nts might be withheld, stating he thought he possessed suffi cient parental authority to prevent the duel. On Saturday, Mr. Inspector Smith, of the T division, in formed Mr. Codd, that notwithstanding the withdrawal of the charge by Mr. Hicks, he had sent Sergeant Clark, T 12, White, T 119, and another constable, at four o'clock that morning, to that gentleman's residence, to watch that no un pleasant rencontre took place between the parties. The offi cers had subsequently reported to him, that after watching for some time, they had ascertained that Mr. Hicks, jun., was in the safe custody of the family, and they consequently left. Mr. Coon having expressed himself satisfied with the cx planation, the matter dropped. The cause of the quarrel did not transpire. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. On Saturday, the driver of the hackney•coach No. 72 was charged by an officer of the Animals' Friend Society with cruelly besting a horse in Fleet-street, on Saturday afternoon. The complainant said the driver stood up on his footboard to lash the horse with greater effect, and that he whipped it cruelly, though it was going fast at the time. The defendant said it was a capital horse to go, but it had been a good while in an omnibus, and in passing through the streets frequented by those vehicles, whenever the horse heard a conductor bawl to a driver to stop it instantly pulled up. lie was breaking the horse of this habit. Mr. Alderman VENABLES said he had partly admitted the offence, and he therefore fined him ss. _ _ _ Lyon Bernard, a well-dressed foreigner, who is detained on suspic:ou of having stolen a box of jewellery from Edin burgh, was remanded till Friday, no further evidence baring been adduced. truth, and ought never to be disunited. But men of selfish and narrow minds never fail to disjoin them. If they are asked to contribute to a foreign object—if they are reques ted to enter upon the wild field of philanthropy, to patronise an expansive scheme of charity, comprehending distant regions, then they instinctively reply that charity begins at home. But, on the other hand, if it chance that their at tention is directed to the sufferers at their own doors, to the institutions which contemplate the alleviation of human misery within the limits of their neighbourhood, or their country, then, as if by magio, they assume a new character, their benevolence expands, their pity and tenderness are not to be confined within such narrow limits, and they declare themselves philanthropists on a large scale ; they immediately apprise the applicant that acting on the principle that charity, though it should begin at home, yet ought never to end there, they have literally exhausted their means, run the whole length of their tether, and, what with claims abroad and demands at home, they have nothing left. Thus is truth perverted for the purposes of selfishness. No passage of Holy Writ has been more abused in this way and for these purposes than that which predicates that "if a man provide not for his own, and especially for them of his own household, he bath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." Every pretender to Christianity possessing a heart encased in sel fishness, or perchance consumed by covetousness, has this truth ever in his mouth, and never fails to make it an apology for doing nothing for any but himself. So uni versally has this averment been appropriated by selfish ness and covetousness for their unhallowed purposes, that unless positive and cogent proof be afforded to the contrary, every man who employs this language as an excuse for withholding his pecuniary means from objects of charity, may be at once set down as " a covetous man, who," St. Paul says, "is an idola ter." Not so, however, our good friends the Tories. Their charity, indeed, begins at home ; but it does not terminate there. Those patriots of a high order have, with laudable zeal, directed their attention to the crying evils which have been produced by Whig legislation at home ; and through their organs of the press have de nounced with great severity and vehemence what they re gard as the malpractices of the Liberal party. Jealous for the honour of the poor, and full of benevolent concern for their welfare, they have pointed out the new laws which affect them, as they conceive, injuriously, and demanded their immediate amendment. And far be it from us to detract from the merit of this good deed, by insinuating, as some would uncharitably insinuate, that they are rather late in the exhibition of their tenderness. Rather would we say with the old adage—" Better late than never ;" for we kt.ow full well that they, who, in their hatred to every thing Popish, have renounced all works of supererogation, can ill afford to lose any part of the credit of their per formances. Preferring the language of Scripture to an un inspired maxim which savours a little of vulgarity and se verity, we would say, "Render, therefore, to all th eir dues," and this command we wouldcheerfully obey, abating nothing. Full of zeal for Protestantism and Church of Englandism, they have been at considerable pains to demonstrate the rapid growth of Catholicism, and the fearful inroads made upon the revenues and rights of the Clergy, and this in order to their being prevented. They have taken upon themselves the task—confessedly no easy one—of showing to what an awful extent the Liberals have encouraged Popery, by pa tronizing that Arch-Papist O'Connell, and injured Chris tianity by doing justice and extending liberty to the Dis senters, and by restoring to them thei▪ r rights. Nothing could be more difficult than to prove that Pr o t es t ant i sm could possibly be injured by a suspensi▪ on or total repeal of the laws of persecution ; and such an effort, moreover, might have involved inconveniences, forasmuch as our goo d friends did themselves, on one occasion, urged by dire neces sity, and for the disinterested purpose of retaining office for the benefit of the country, attempt and accomplish, with the aid of the Whigs, the repeal of certain laws of this class af fecting the Roman Catholics. They have, therefore. found it desirable to leave this work unattempted. But to show that the National Establishment might suffer in its temporalities, or rather thatrich pluralists and others would suffer by such a course, was less difficult, and they have, therefore, applied themselves to the task, and have pleaded their cause most valiantly and heroically. Manifold other grievances, which we cannot stay to detail, they have exposed and con demned--grievances, be it observed, equally fearful and palpable, and, indeed, so palpable and prominent, to them selves at least, as almost to render unnecessary the hand posts they have been so careful to set up and the warnings they have so repeatedly given. But time would fail us to tell of all that the Tories have, through the channels referred to, done or attempted in the way of pointing out defects, exposing what they conceive to be errors, and denouncing what they regard as palpable evils, pro minent dangers, or threatening mischiefs. The Liberal party, and the Government, in particular, will, of course, estimate, as far as possible their disinterested kindness ; and feel that they are laid under infinite obligations by their good offices. Ungrateful indeed would they prose themselves, were they to fail in this respect. There is an old and sound maxim, however—and they who, like our Tory friends, are great admirers of the wisdom of our an 3estors, will not regard it the less for its antiquity—of hich we are just now forcibly reminded, v iz.:-" That one mend-fault is worth a hundred find-faults." This is worthy the consideration of our friends. It is rather late in the day for them to learn this lesson, especially as they have set up far teachers of others ; and to carry it into practice will, with them, be somewhat difficult. But there is an other lesson of importance which they cannot fail to have learned, viz. :—" He is not too old to learn who is not too wise to be taught." And if, amongst the multitude of evls to he remedied they should be at ;loss where to begin, we would venture to suggest to them the Corn-laws. Great as is their sympathy with the poor, and vehement as is their desire for their benefit, they will doubtless apply themselves to this work, so as to be prepared, on the meeting of Parliament, to afford relief so palpable, tangible, and extensive. They may then proceed to the education of the poor of Ireland on an ample scale. Thus they may remove the darkness, superstition, and cruelty of that land of error and wickedness, as they are wont to represent it ; raise the character, and elevate the moral and intellectual condition of those whom they con sider to be in the worst state of degradation ; and by making way for the increase of Protestantism, for which they are so zealous, shut the flood-gates of Popery, which they so cordially hate, and the encroachments of which they so deplore and deprecate. These things, and others which we might mention, have been forgotten by them. But who can feel surprise that men of such ample views and enlarged plans—men of such devoted patriotism and distinguished philanthropy—should overlook some smaller matters ? They have taken an elevated position, and have looked far and wide. No marvel, then, if a few things near at hand have escaped their notice. They who can scan the world, can hardly he expected to observe very minutely. We shall return to this subject to-morrow.—A/onrin g Advertiser. Moderate and enlightened justice has obtained another triumph in the rescue from their impending fate of the two young women at Chester, sentenced to death for infanti cide. This triumph has been obtained by the force of pub lic opinion compelling Ministers reluctantly to abandon the intention of sacrificing the lives of two wretched victims to the demoralising effect of the bastardy clauses of the new Poor-law, when their doom appeared to have been defi nitively fixed. Had the Queen's Ministers brought the cases of these women under her Majesty's notice at an earlier period we are convinced, from what we know of the mild and merciful sentiments which animate the Royal heart, that a favourable answer would have been sooner returned than it was to the petitions and remonstrances of the people. Instead of all applications for mercy, in the first instance, proving fruitless, as we were informed by the Chester Courant, public anxiety, which was excited to a most painful degree on this subject, would have been at once relieved, and Ministers would have been spared the storm of indignant commentary which they brought about their own ears by their conduct on this oc casion, and which gives the exercise of the Royal preroga tive, which ought to seem an act of grace and spontaneous clemency, the appearance of an extorted concession to an irresistible " pressure from without." When we first brought the cases of Dinah Jones and Ann Byrom under public notice we could scarcely anticipate any serious in tention on the part of Ministers to allow the sentence of the law to be carried into effect. Still, as Mr. Baron Gurney had, as far as in him lay, fixed the fate of the prisoners, and peremptorily rejected the recommendation of the jury in favour of Dinah Jones, we felt it an imperative duty to state our reasons why the beneficent prerogative of the Crown should interfere to overrule the judicial determina tion to have the unfortunate women banged. Having no ticed the subject two or three times, and stated that a pe tition for mercy bad been forwarded to the Queen, which was signed by the rector of the parish in which one of the women resided, six other Clergymen and Ministers, two county Magistrates, and a great number of respectable trades pf,reeeormnputles a,eywnitnegvileft th e ma t ter t h ere, an d re f ra i ne d f or some t i me anything ouldh ave sparedmo.re on u t s h subject, t e hetroub trouble expecting e further that G o- advert ing t o cases so dist ressing, by sacrificing their own preju dices in favour of punishme n t s palunishments o f bl oo d to t h e d eman d s o w f e enlightened r publicbed and ainlaiolrin efr o n.e d r From tb y to t savethis stthaet e v ication in o i f ct s im ile s nc o e f inehfrect the Chester paper that o yec u o a ln l mun Poor-law sedu c ti on h ad provedan h ,, est t e u r at g t a u el the usual preparation s f or j ud i cial homicideit; Chester agitatedthaton l were going on. Then it was t h at we once the subject ; and as Minister s are f on d of all gat tends to benefit themselves, we do n o t see why they not get enough of it when it tends to th e advantage ofonind terests less selfish and perishable than their own . There fore we " agitated" against the execution of the female victims of the new Poor-law in language which, though Q UEEN- SQUARE. A young woman, scarcely seventeen years of age, and who presented the remains of a frame worn by famine almost to the verge of the grave, was charged by a policeman of the A division with being found asleep on on a bench in Hyde Park, at four o'clock on Saturday morning. Upon being taken into custody for this " illegal" act, she refused to accompany the policeman, declaring that she ought not to be deprived of the only resting place that she could find. She was an orphan, and had not tasted food for some days. No one would give her a lodging, and she did not like to become a prostitute. Upon her being taken to the station-house, she gave her name Harriet Martin; and upon the Magistrate questioning her, she said that was her real name. Her relations had been opulent tradespeople in Worcester, where they had nearly all of them failed in business, and upon the death of her father and mother she had been turned into the street. She came to London in hopes of getting employment, but failed, and under the New Poor-law Bill she could not obtain relief from the parish. The Magistrates sent her for fourteen days to Tothill fields, with an order that she might be passed to Worcester st the expiration of that time. LAMBETH-STREET. As the Sitting Magistrates, Messrs. HARDWICK and GAR FORD, were about to leave the Bench, George Farquhar, a singular-looking man, in the garb of a sailor, was brought be fore them on a charge of being disorderly, and creating a dis turbance, by causing a number of persons to assemble about him in the public street. Sergeant Murray, K 25, stated that about one or two o'clock on that afternoon his attention was directed to a number of persons collected in Newby - place , Poplar, and on going to the spot, he found the prisoner holding forth in a dialogue which partook of half blasphemy and half prayer, but he should think somewhat more of the former than the latter, and though he pretended to much religious zeal, he (Mur ray) never heard a man utter more dreadful oaths than the prisoner did. His first impression was, that he was labouring under the effects of intoxication ; but this he found was not the case ; and as he refused to go about his business, or leave off his harangue, he felt it to be his duty to take him to the station-house. The Sergeant added, that he knew the friends of the prisoner, who were respectable people, and he had no doubt his present state of excitement, fanaticism, and delusion, was induced by his former intemperate mode of living. When asked what he had to say to the charge and his extra ordinary conduct, the prisoner broke out into a most violent rhapsody and rapid volubility of language. He said he was the chosen disciple of his Saviour, and sent on earth to reveal to her Majesty Queen Victoria, in person, some grand and important secrets, and should make the best of his way to her Majesty, to fulfil his sacred mission. The Magistrates told him he was not a fit person to be at large in the pu blic street s , and ordered him to find bail, in de fault of which he was locked up. From some expressions which dropped from him, it would a ppear that the prisoner has before attempted t o ga i n access to the presence of her Majesty, but had been prevented and taken up by the police. UNION-HALL. Robert Hewlir!qs was held t o b a il to appear at t h e Sess i ons f o r throwing vitriol over two young women, named Hamilton and Morley. The prisoner was instigated by a revengeful spirit against the complainants, in consequence of their charging a female with whom he lived with an assault before a Magistrate. On Thursday, as the complainants were walking together over Westminster-bridge, he threw the contents of a bottle of vitriol over their gowns, which were burned to pieces in every part touched by it. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. I.—The Gorgon steam-frigate, Com. Dacres, arrived here yesterday from the Nore, with a Spa nish brig in tow, which had run foul of her on her passage, but without material damage to either vessel. The arrival of this ship has excited much attention, as she is the largest Go vernment steamer, being 1,140 tons; •she mounts two 84- pounders, bow and stern, on sweep slides, and six 32-pounders, long guns on the broadside, all on the upper deck; but as on the deck below we find five ports on each side, fitted with ring bolts and breeching bolts, we would ask why she has not guns mounted there? Is it that she is deeper in the water than was calculated on, because we have heard as much ; and from the fact that the lower half of the ports in question are caulked in, because they are very near the water, that the copper has been raised a strake and her lower poddle-boards are immersed four feet under the sur face, such would appear to be the case. At present her draught is 15 feet 6 inches forward, and 15 feet 10 inches abaft ; her stowage is for 500 tons of coals ; but she only took in, in this voyage, 3ao tons, barely, we understand a ten days' consumption. She has had no coals stowed in her after boxes, and her spare heavy pieces of machinery are stowed for ward, instead of the place originally intended. She has a deck below the presumed gun deck, where 400 troops could be comfortably berthed at a time ; her two en gines comprise a strength of 320 horse-power, and appear of beautiful construction ; her boilers are of copper. She will sail in a few days with a detacbment of marines and supplies of provisions for San Sebastian. We would ask any shipwright or seaman the reason why she has such an extraor dinary sheer, or spring, in the fore part of her upper deck, and which it was remarked by visitors, must materially inconve nience the working of the foremost gun ? The Apollo troop-ship, Mr. Karley, master, was off Guernsey on Thursday morning last, with the depot of the Bth regiment of Foot on board, from Ireland. The Curlew, 10, Commander Norcott, arrived this evening from the coast of Africa. By the Mary, from Africa, we learn that her Majesty's ship the Pylades succeeded in capturing, off the coast of Old Calabar, on the 3d of June, the Portuguese slave schooner the Prova. The Prova was seized while yet her kidnapped and contraband cargo remained in her swelter- • ing hold. The Duke of Argyll, for Madras, and the Berkshire, for Bombay, sailed on Monday last ; the Mary Ann, for Madras, sailed on Tuesday ; the Windsor, for Madras and Bengal, sailed this morning. All these ships took advantage of the facilities and conveniences of this port for the embarkation of their passengers' supplies. The New York packet-ship, Samson, sailed this morning from Spithead for the States. The Firebrand steamer returned from Ireland on Thursday, having landed the Board of Admiralty at Liverpool. She pro ceeded yesterday for Bognor and the river. At Spithead—Edinburgh, Pique, Curlew, Stakesby trans port. In Harbour—Britannia, Victory, Hastings, Excellent, Royal George, Actaeon, Orestes, Pantaloon, Messenger steamer, Gorgon steam frigate, and Diligence naval transport. NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. Promotions to the Rank of Pursers.—Steph. Brooksley, J. C. Heathman, Robert Major Jeffery. Joseph T. Hemer, Jas. Gregory, William Wilkins, Patrick O'Conner, J. Westwood, Thomas R. Hallett, George Wallis. Appointments.—Commanders—E. W. Pilkington, to the Coast Guard, Isle of Sheppy, vice Rich, promoted. Lieutenants—B. H. Bunco, to the Rover; Burnett(late Mate of Wasp), the Hon. C. Elliot, to Rodney; Wilson, to the Excellent ; James Rawstone, to the Orestes. Masters—E. P. Cole, to the Rover; Richard Thomas, Acting, to the Peterel. Purser—R. T. Reep, to the Rover. Surgeons—Dr. Ballantyne, to the Island of Ascension : Mr. Booth, to the Rover. Assistant- Sugeons—John Yeoman, to the Petterel ; Wal ter Trail, Dr. James Walland, and George D. Gordon, to the Britannia. Mates—J. W. Pollard, to Buzzard ; John Franklin, to Pilot; M‘Guire, to Wasp; W. G. Deane, to Actaeon; Robert Moore, to Hastings. Midshipman—George Collier Kerr, to Hastings. Vols., Ist Class—Edward Lambert and H. V. A. Powlett, to Actaeon. Clerks—James Biggs, to Rose ; Cheeseman, to Pan taloon. Warrant Officers—Richard Hingston, acting boatswain, and Francis Devonshire, acting carpenter, to Rover. ROYAL MARINES.—Second Lieutenants Symonds and Rod ney are ordered to embark on board the Gorgon steam-vessel, to join the battalion in Spain. (From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, Auo. 1. —The Jupiter troop-ship is ready for sea, she proceeds to Cork and will convey the 94th to Ceylon. The Pilot, Commander Ramsay, is fitting with all possible dispatch to relieve the Pearl, Lord C. Paget, on the West India station. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Spitfire, Lieut. Kennedy, sailed on Friday for Woolwich to he repaired. Her Majesty's packet Goldfinch, 6, Lieut. Collier, arrived from Falmouth on Saturday, and came into harbour the same day to refit. Her Majesty's packet Petterel, 10, was commissioned on Tuesduy by Lieut. W. Crooke. Her Majesty's brig Nightingale, 10, was paid off on Mon day ; and the Royalist, 10, will be paid off on Monday next. The Rochester lighter arrived on Wednesday, with stores, from Chatham. The Falmouth lighter arrived on Wednes day, from Portsmouth, with stores. The Camel lighter ar rived on Wednesday, from Holyhead, with stores. The Serail tender arrived on Wednesday, from Falmouth, with stores. In Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Hercules, Jupi ter, Pilot, Rover, Royalist, Petterel, Penguin, Goldfinch, and Seagull. Her Majesty's ship Inconstant, 36, Capt. D. Pring, is daily expected from Quebec. She was to leave on the 10th of July, with dispatches from the Earl of Durham and Sir C. Paget. We have to contradict, from authority, the report that Ad miral Sir Josias Rowley will succeed to the command at Ports mouth on the next change. The report is entirely destitute of foundation. —Nava! and Military Gazette. The appointment of Captain Lord John Churchill to the Vernon, 50, is reported, but it has not yet taken place. REPORT OF THE WOOLLEN TRADE FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST. SEPT. 1, 1838.—The transactions of the month of August have been large in amount, and satisfactory in other respects. Throughout the month the resort of buyers from all parts•of the home market has been steady, and their purchases have been on a good scale, and we think at a fair profit to the sellers. We infer the latter circumstance from the absence of that " chaffing" and beating down of prices, which, when the buyers are few and the goods many, is so common in the expe rience of the Leeds woollen merchants. We believe the prin cipal demand has been for the home trade—a fact which de cisively indicates a rapid approach to full activity in all the staple departments of our manufactures, and shows also that the channels of foreign exchange, so long obstructed, are again open. The goods in chief request have been the heavier fabrics, viz. pilots, beavers, and double-milled cloths ; next to them blue cloths of low and middle qualities, and in a lesser de gree wool blacks and greens. In the lighter fabrics of cloak ings, which a few years ago were so much in demand during the autumn, especially olives and browns, very little has been done ; indeed we understand that they are superseded by a more suitable fabric, which may perhaps mean a more fashionable one. Olive and brown single milled goods of middle qualities have been little inquired for, and, except for the American trade, are apparently a drug. The stocks of balk and finished goods are not large. It could not be otherwise, after the brisk demand of the last two or three months. The severe losses of staplers and clothiers during 1837 had so far checked confidence in the former class, and compelled extreme caution and limited operations in the latter, that, as we stated in a recent re port, it was impossible that a large stock could be held by merchants or manufacturers. The result has verified our opinion. The preparation of goods, wo believe, is extremely guarded, and most properly so. Until the last ten days the grounds for apprehending a very deficient harvest were many —caution was plainly the only justifiable policy, and we be lieve it has been generally followed. Another cause, doubt less, has operated to repress the manufacturers—the appre hension that wool might not maintain its high comparative elevation, and that apprehension has not yet altogether ceased. The price of the raw material, as determined at the recent German fairs, will compel the manufacturers to raise prices full five per cent. as compared with the mass of goods sold during the last three months. It so happens that the goods, which are annually fresh brought into stock, from the new wools, come in at the close of the active autumn demand, and when there are two or three dull months in prospect. This, in years of steady prices, does not operate seriously on manufacturing activity—but when, as in the present year, wool is decidedly up, both merchant and manufacturer anticipate the struggle to realise the advance on goods, and hence both are cautious. They are so now, and with good reason, since neither the amount of the harvest at home nor on the Conti nent, nor the probable demand for cloth in the States, is yet a matter of tolerably exact calculation. There is, besides, a large clip from Australia, estimated at between 7,500,000 and 8,000,0001b5. weight, which, in the present vibrating condi tion of the English wool trade, must tell on the prices of that article, as well as on the lower German wools. In our two last Reports we dwelt at some length on the prospects of the harvest at home. Within the last fortnight the signs have been more propitious —increasing warmth_ drying winds, and, saving one violent storm in the immediate neighbourhood, but little rain. In the south of England the harvest has commenced auspiciously—but the notions as to quality and quantity are exceedingly various—whilst in Ire land much anxiety still prevails, and in the north of England and Scotland the whole harvest is exposed to the risks of an unusually late season. We are compelled to hold to our pre viously expressed opinion of a crop under an average, and consequently high price of food during the next 12 months. If correct, caution should be the manufacturers' motto—they will act otherwise as they may have good reason for dissenting from our opinion. The probable extent of the spring demand for the States still continues to be a subject of interest. We have no new light to throw on it. Commercial matters there are at least perfectly calm; and, in the order of change, activity surely follows. We acknowledge that we look for it with confidence. —Morning Advertiser. LOSS OF LIFE ON THE RIVER . ..e. .......) a Yesterday morning, soon after ten o'clock, a fearful acci dent occurred in the Pool, exactly off Wapping Ne w Stairs, by the running down of a boat, containing seven persons, 11. Y the Rose, a Woolwich steamer. Two women unfor tunately, lost their lives, and the others were placed in a situa:ien °I great jeopardy. It appears that the party, consisting of three men, belonging to Stratford, and four women, left that pt.' ce about nine o'clock, and came down Bow Creek into tb e Thames, for the purpose of going to Hammersmith. TWO men were rowing, but the party had no watermen with them- On arriving at Wapping, the Rose, an old steam-vessel, 011 her way to Woolwich, under the command of Captain Tucker , was seen bearing towards them at full speed. The crew of the steamer and the people in the boat hailed each other to go clear ; but owing to the alarm into which the people were thrown by the steamer coming down so fast upon them, and their own want of skill, a collision took place, the bows of the steamer struck the boat, and all the party were thrown out into the River. The Rose passed over some of the individus.. l N who were directly afterwards seen struggling in the water.. with the exception of one man, who clung to the bob stay ed the Rose, and was taken on board. Wherries put off from both shores to preserve the sufferers, and two police galley,' from the Thames Police Office opposite also rowed te' the spot; but, with all their efforts, only five persons were picked up. Two women, named Elizabeth Coventry, the wife of a respectable mechanic, who was one of the parties saved, and Elizabeth Beech, a single young woman, whose parents reside at Stratford, were unfortunately drowned. The two women twice sunk and rose again; the watermen and the Thames police pulled as hard as they were able, and were within a few yards of the poor creatures, when they again went down and perished. Coventry, the husband, was oeit a few yards from his wife when she sunk : he was dragged into a boat in a most exhausted state. One of the females had a very narrow escape : she got among the paddles of the Rose, whence she was taken by a waterman and saved. 0 the survivors were taken to the Waterman's Arms public house, Wapping Old-stairs. One woman, who appeared in a dying condition, was immediately stripped and restoratives were applied, and she was provided with dry clothing. She soon recovered, and about an hour afterwards she left town with her friends, to convey the sad tidings to their relatives A Stratford. Coventry appeared quite stupified on bearing that his wife was lest, and he remained in his wet clothes bewail ing his loss in a manner which affected all present. The name of one of his companions, who also went home in his wet clothes, is William Gillman. The watermen who saw the occurrence, and who are gene rally prejudiced against the steamers in consequence of their rapid and dangerous navigation, attribute the accident to the want of skill in the men rowing the boat, who did not knout how to pull out of the way, but rowed towards the steamer. The survivors, however, state that they were proceeding with the greatest care, and on the steamer approaching them, when she was within 300 yards of the boat, they called out as loud as they were able, but no notice was taken of them 11 the master of the Rose, which never altered her course until they were run down. The Thames police continued dragging for the bodies of the deceased women for several hours, but did not succeed is finding them. They have, no doubt, been carried up the river a considerable distance, as the tide was flowing at the time. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury.) LEEDS.—This week there has not been quite so brisk $ demand for the finer qualities of goods at our cloth-halls, but in low qualities and in heavy winter goods there has been fully as much business done as of late. Business also cow tinues in much the same state in the warehouses as for son►° time past. ... _ BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The yarn market CO'' tinues in much the same state as - our late numbers have re ported it. We notice a little more eagerness to purchase, where it can be done on lower terms ; but the spinners are indisposed to submit to a reduction, as at the present price s of wool they cannot spin yarn for less with profit. There are no new features in the piece -market to -day as contraste d with our report during the last three or four weeks. The demand for fancy goods and plain cloth for printing is UI abated, and in other descriptions an average amount of bus" ness has been done. Prices generally remain firm. HALIFAX MARKET, SATURDAY. —We have had a dull market for pieces to-day. Few buyers have attended, and veryf" r goods have exhanged hands ; in prices there is no alteration. Our yarn market, too, is dull, manufacturers not giving orders freely, although the offers to them are on rather better terrns• In wools there is not an average business doing; consume. buy sparingly, expecting that the dull state of the piece market will force down prices a little. The difference in price tit . week is not quotable. Middle wethers remain at 151. per pac",, MANCHESTER, FRIDAY..—A full amount of business has b ee done this week in all kinds of grey cloth; but without any teration in prices except in domestics, for which, by 5 43 ° 3 , _ manufacturers, rather less has been taken. In finished pool people are busy, and there is every prospect of a continua:o demand. YORK WOOL MARKET, AVG. 30.—Our market has well attended by buyers to-day, and a considerable quaogi. of business has been done, with no material alteration of p rices , Half hog and ewe, 15d. to 16d. ; ewe, 130. to 14d. ; 1 " k and cots, 10d. to I Id. ; moor wool, 7d. to Bd. per lb. B y THE om h E e S c P o I n T n n E u t O a t F i nDoifN the I exjtrOeNmEeSsenAteNnnee o A f Nt:Te law on these two unfortunate women, who were ordered Or execution at Chester, on S a t ur d ay l ast, h as g i ve n almost uni• versal satisfaction among all classes in the city. HOP INTELLIGENCE.--WORCESTER, AUG. 31 ' —Our market on Saturday last was very quick for all desair tions of Worcester Hops, which, when offered for sale, wer e readily bought up at from 4s. to ss. per cwt. advance on preceding market prices ; so unfavourable was then the weat her ; being rainy and cold north winds (which had been more c l e less the case throughout the week), that bets were I na , e against the plantation paying 3,000/. duty. On Sunday th weather took a suitable turn to hot sun and warm nights, va l e , has continued very favourable for the young Hop up to the e t es sent period, and has operated fully as much to lower P ric t ., this week as last did to raise them on our market. The du ds is supposed to reach 7 or 8,0001., as many favourable P r that escaped the blight, are kind, and appear to be groriirt 6or 7 cwt. to the acre. Prices—low qualities, 635. to 7°9 "; useful, 70a. to 755. ; fine, 84s. to 955. per cwt. ; Yearling 50s. to 68s.— Worcester Herald. About a fortnight ago, a man named Kerrogan , r e ; siding in Pleasance, wbo was employed as a labourer, anst also a pension of 7d. a-day, deserted a family of five cbila r ; o t t le eldest of whom was only nine years of age, and the You tis t be an infant. Their mother died about two months ago i°,,.," u t Royal Infirmary, and the father left them in the house wit' h we a morsel of bread, and without a bed to lie on. Since !P i a some benevolent neighbours had given the poor things occasionally, until Saturday night, when one of them reP r o sented the case to the police office, where the children w e d taken under protection, and next morning sent to the Hou se Refuge.—Edribtirgh Courant. —ote_ SETS OF PLATED DISH COVERS, .• jo as STRONG SILVER EDGES, may be selected of .... .,,v a iirf Patterns, price 161. the S e t, a t T. COX SAVORY'S, vv.,° r don Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, 1 1 00 6 ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). The Set consists cover 20, 18, 14, and 12 inches diameter. er for N.B.—The three Show Rooms contain a large variety of s i q t of Sillier-edged Plated Goods. A Pamphlet, containing a l a ter Prices and Drawings of Silver Spoon s and Forks, Silver " „ i be Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or lc forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. - - - _ BIRTHS. id On the 30th ult., at Downe Lodge, Wandsworth, the l a dy ° Anthony F. Bainbridge, Esq., of a daughter. On the 30th ult., at Brighton, the wife of the Rev. R. Da r t° Buttemer, of a daughter. which survived only a few hours. ,y, On the 30th ult., in Powis-place, the lady of Henry W. FP - Esq., of a daughter. A of On the 31st ult., in York-street, Portman-square, the law John Wagg, Esq., of a son. aver On the 30th ult,. in Brompton-row, the lady of Robert •D`' Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service, of a son. MARRIED. Gedf On the 29th ult., at St. James's Church. Piccadilly , Mr. 1 , 0 ° Freeman, of Percy-street, Bedford-square, to Eliza Doug'. of High-row, Knightsbridge. Gill , On the 31st ult., at St. John's, Hackney, Mr. John of Colet-place, Commercial-road, to Mary, eldest daughter late Henry Palmer, Esq., of Hackney. ,a 01 1 : 1 On the 39th alt., at St. Paul's, Hammersmith, Rick., they-e' Goolden, Esq., M.D., of John-st ree t, Ad e l p hi, t o 1'..°' ;4 1 1 . youngest daughter of Thomas Naylor, Esq., of H am mersni e ? r ol‘i On the 22d ult., at B russe l s , Z. K on i gswarter, E sqj I ° fort-on-the-Maine, to Emma, daughter of Mr. Morris ft Bevis Marks, London. -F., Ol e" On the 28th ult., at St. George's, Liverpool, N. 0 14 Esq., of London, to Rose, second daughter of Thomas Tobin , t of the former place. l og e At Aston, Mr. Henry Blakesly, of London, to Caroline , Y ° o,st; ° daughter of Z. Twainley, Esq., of Hawkesford-hous e, o r Bromwich, Warwickshire. I,o(fg e ' of On the 30th ult., at Dartford, Kent, Mr. Thomas h ter Oxford-street, to Mary Cornwall Philcox, youngest d aufr Mr. 11 illiam Philcox, of Dartford. Aelo , to On the 30th ult., at the Cathedral Church of Lich-hire Herbert Woodhouse, Esq., of Lyswayes Hall, Stafford,„sk;lol. Helena Charlotte, eldest daughter of the late Sir Charles 1" Bart. oise'' DIE D. On the 27th ult., at Dover, the Rev. William Theophiltls rd burne, th M.A., aged 42. 1 t., at Bernard-street, Russell-9 Ea °l3 On e 25th u , l" -r e ' Elton, Esq., aged 48. youngest Vraecis On the 29th ult., M ar y A nne, daughter of en R e Pai‘ Sante, Esq., of Codic o t e L o d ge, H ert f or d s hi re . °5 On the 29th ult., Ed war d, youngest son o f John -- 4s * Esq., of Chalk, Kent, aged 19. ag e CS On the 30th ult., at Dulwich, T. S. Whithington , E l , :f ' to la° BuOottnn, t t Eh h se e q2. 29th ult., at Walton, Elizabeth, relict of t..- a f° 44 Helen's-place, ri. e rie, , St• aged 82. ,s_pia o ce th , ult., at Bathvvick, Bath, John Hooke ~..r gsek, 0 On the 28th ag u ed lt. i4. at Mile-end, W. Tomlinson, 5. t Selby, aged s On the 28th ult., at Bearsted, Kent, Mr. George Aone , e On the 30th ult., in Torrington-square, Mary 4 ' daughter of the late James William Dunkin, Esq. y le a 39' On the 31 s t ult., i n Berners-street, Mrs. Hawkbl, alk., g (lon• 0 0 0 nn theth e 28th 28th nit., ul t . in ElizaE a t o c n a - t s h q a u r a i r n e e , , the v, if?oufuLteise Burrows.stftena..--ut-Zer'er of Landon: Printed and Published by MURDO in '— ecin r ' wl 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Str and) of Iliddlesex.—Monday, September 3, 1838. ;OA6III 1 t,'